Arizona Early Intervention Program
IDEA 2011 Requirements
Procedural Safeguards
-Prior Written Notice and Consent-
Consent - What’s New?
Activity
Screening
New
Child Assessment
Use of Insurance (Public/Private)
New
New
Activities that Require Consent and
Prior Written Notice
Activity
Requires
Consent
Requires
Prior Written Notice
Screening
X
X
Evaluation
X
X
Eligibility Determination
X
Child Assessment
X
Initiate/Change Provision of Services
X
Use of Insurance (Private or Public)
X
Disclosure of Records & Personally
Identifiable Information
X
X
Prior Written Notice
Prior Written Notice is required under IDEA,
Part C to ensure families are provided
information about the actions being proposed or
refused surrounding their child’s participation in
AzEIP before the action takes place.
Prior Written Notice
Is intended to give families information so they
can make informed choices and decisions in the
delivery of supports and services for their child
and family.
Prior Written Notice
Must be given to the parents a reasonable time before the
Early Intervention Program proposes or refuses to initiate or
change:
•Identification (screening);
•Evaluation;
•Placement (eligibility); and
•The provision of appropriate early intervention services.
Prior Written Notice
The notice must be in sufficient detail to inform the parent
about:
•The action that is being proposed or refused;
•The reasons for taking the action; and
•All procedural safeguards available under the federal
regulations, including a description of mediation, how to file a
complaint and a due process hearing, and the timelines under
those procedures.
Prior Written Notice
The notice must be:
•understandable to the general public, and
•provided in the native language of the parent, unless it is clearly not
feasible to do so.
–if the native language or other mode of communication of the parent is not a
written language, the notice must be translated orally or by other means to the
parent in the parent’s native language or other mode of communication, unless
clearly not feasible to do so.
Prior Written Notice Table
Activity
AzEIP Form to be used
Identification – Determining if Child Suspected of a Developmental Delay
Propose to Conduct Screening
Evaluation
Propose to evaluate to determine initial AzEIP eligibility
Refuse to evaluate
Propose to evaluate to re-determine AzEIP eligibility
Placement – Eligibility Determination
Propose eligibility after completion of record review
Propose eligibility after completion of evaluation
Refuse eligibility after completion of evaluation
Propose to change eligibility status after re-evaluation
Consent for Screening – Prior Written
Notice
(GCI-1082A)
Consent for Evaluation – Prior Written
Notice
(GCI-1038A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Provision of Early Intervention Services
Propose the type, intensity, frequency, methods and/or duration of early intervention services
Propose to change the type, intensity, frequency, methods and/or duration of early intervention
services
Refuse to provide the type, intensity, frequency, methods and/or duration of an early intervention
service
Refuse to change the type, intensity, frequency, methods and/or duration of an early intervention
service
IFSP Informed Consent by Parent(s) for
Services Page
(GCI-1021O)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Prior Written Notice
(GCI-1050A)
Thank You!
For more information:
www.azdes.gov/azeip